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Gianmaria AJANI
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Law School, University of Turin, Italy | | III PLENARY SESSION
Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Sharing of Legal Knowledge | Gianmaria Ajani graduated in 1979 from the Law School of the University of Torino magna cum laude. He also attended in 1982 the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé in Strasbourg. From 1981 to 1983 he was research fellow at the University "Bocconi", in Milano; he then joined the Faculty of Economics at the University of Trento. In 1987 he joined as associate professor the Law School of the University of Trento and received tenure as a full professor in 1990. From 1990 to 1996 he was appointed as Director of the Department of Law.
On November 1996 he joined the University of Torino, School of Law, where he now teaches Comparative Law, Chinese Law, and European Private Law at the Faculty of Law. In Torino he was appointed Director of the Department of Law in 1998 and he served two terms, until the year 2004.
Since 2004 he is Speaker for the Academic Network called ACQUIS Group, whose aim is to develop common "Principles of the Existing EC Private Law".
He is also coordinator, since 2002, of the research project "Uniform Terminology for European Private Law"
whose aim is to facilitate the national reception of Community policy within the field of private law through the realisation of a common terminology of EC private law.
Professor Ajani has advised several international institutions, such as the IMF, the EU Commission, The Council of Europe, UNDP, the ILO, on different aspects of legal reforms in Transition Countries, with particular reference to commercial laws, and to the codification of private law.
From 1998 to 2003 he has acted for the German Agency for Technical Assistance (GTZ), as Expert to the Ministry of Commerce and to the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress of PR of China.
Gianmaria Ajani is member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and of the Association Henry Capitant; he is also deputy director of the Centre for Theoretical and Applied Ontology, and member of the editorial Board of the Review of Central and Eastern European Law and of the Review "Contratti e Impresa Europa".
He has been involved in many field researches on legal change in the PR of China, Vietnam, Laos, Albania, Russia, Ukraine, Somalia, Eritrea, Tanzania.
Professor Ajani is author of 8 books and of more than 60 other publications in English, Italian, German, French, Russian and Chinese. |
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Mariya BADEVA-BRIGHT
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Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
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The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Mariya Badeva-Bright is a graduate of the IT and Law LLM programme at Stockholm University, Sweden and from Plovdiv University, Bulgaria (Magister Iuris). She is currently working on her PhD thesis dealing with Privacy and Data Protection in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa where she also teaches the undergraduate course in Legal Information Literacy and is a co-ordinator for the Cyberlaw LLM. Mariya has worked for the Southern African Legal Information Institute since 2004 and is currently involved with formulating strategy on the content, technical and policy issues within SAFLII.
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Albrecht BERGER |
OPOCE - Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg | I PLENARY SESSION
The Right to Access Legal Information | I am a lawyer (retired civil servant of the German Federal Ministry of Justice and civil servant of the European Commission) who has been working and publishing in the field of legal information retrieval since the early 1970s; (e.g., I was the first one outside Italy to publish a detailed description of the Italgiure system). During the early 70s, I was the adviser to the Association for legal informatics of the German legal publishers ("Verlegervereinigung Rechtsinformatik") before becoming a member of the legal database project-group in the Ministry of Justice. During the late 80s and the early 90s, I was the secretary of the committee in the European Commission in charge of designing and monitoring the policy of access to the databases of the Commission (which than were half free-of-charge, half fee-based services). In the late 90s, I monitored the setting-up of the first free-of-charge legal online service of the EU, the EUR-Lex website.
Currently, I am the secretary of the European Forum of Official Gazettes, the association of the legal gazettes of the EU Member and of other European countries. In this context, I am following closely the work of one of the Forum's committees, the Working Group on "Access". This group studies the effects which the ever increasing number of free-of-charge legal online services have on the business models of legal gazettes and other organisations charged with the dissemination of legal information. |
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Pascale BERTELOOT |
OPOCE - Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg | | III PLENARY SESSION
Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Sharing of Legal Knowledge | Pascale Berteloot is a lawyer who graduated in Grenoble, France and also studied in Germany. After two years as an assistant at the University of Cologne, Germany, she shortly worked for an insurance broker, before joining the Court of Justice of the EC in 1977 as a lawyer linguist. She staid at the Court until 2001, when she was head of division and responsible under more for informatics for lawyer linguists, especially in the domain of documentation and automation of some translation processes. In 2001, she joined the Publications Office of the EC, where she took over CELEX and EUR-Lex to merge them into new EUR-Lex which was made available in 2004-2005. Since 2008, she took over a new department dealing with legal consolidation, copyright and generally legal and documentary questions of the Publications Office. Since 1983, Pascale Berteloot teaches regularly at the University of Trier, Germany, in courses she contributed to set up and which aim is to give young German lawyers verbal and written abilities in foreign legal languages. She also taught some courses in legal terminology, legal translating and online legal documentation, mainly in Grenoble and Barcelona. Since 2001, she regularly contributes with the view of the practice to seminars on legal informatics. |
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Jon BING |
Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), Norway | 1 PARALLEL SESSION
A Legal Framework for the Provision of Legal Information | Jon Bing (born Tønsberg, Norway 1944), cand jur (Oslo) 1969, dr juris (Oslo) 1982, Professor, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Dr juris hon causae (Stockholm 1997 and Copenhagen 1998), Computer Law Pioneer Award (San Diego 1993), Visiting Professor, King's College (London) 1998-2000. Telenor Nordic research prize for information technology and society 2001, Nordic honorary prize for contribution to law (offered every fourth year) 2002, Honorary prize Norwegian Library Association 2004.
Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, and is a Knight of St Olav first order (by King Harald V).
Doctoral thesis on legal information systems and communication processes. Additional areas of research: Data protection, intellectual property law, interlegal law and Internet governance, all related to information technology. Numerous publications, national and international.
Former offices include Council of Europe Committee on Legal Data Processing (chair), European Cultural Foundation (member), Norwegian Film Council (Chair), Norwegian Arts Council (Chair) and Organising Committee International Conference for Library and Information 2005 Oslo (chair). Current offices include Council, Generic Name Support Organization, ICANN (member), Data Protection Tribunal (chair), Norwegian Research Council Program on Safety and Security (chair) and Bergesen’s Foundation for Public Well (member).
First fiction 1967 (with Tor Åge Bringsværd), since then published novels, short-stories, essays, translations; plays for stage, radio and television, libretti of operas; edited anthologies, etc. Prizes for best annual juvenile novel (1975), best annual crime fiction (1979), best annual comic strip (1980), NKS educational prize for a television series introducing law in practice (1991), Brage Honorary Prize for contributions to Norwegian literature (2001), Prize by librarians at schools (1985) and IBBY International prize for the translation of juvenile fiction. |
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Guillaume BLAIN
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LexUM - University of Montreal, Canada
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The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Guillaume Blain is a proud dad of two, has worked at Lexum since 2002 as an analyst working on legislation publication. He also studies part time towards a Master's Degree in Computational linguistics. |
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Danièle BOURCIER |
CNRS, France
University of Paris 2 | | III PLENARY SESSION
Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Sharing of Legal Knowledge | Danièle Bourcier received her training in Law at the University of Rennes and at the Université of Paris 1 Sorbonne (Doctorate in Public Law and Habilitation cum laude 1988).
In 1994, Danièle Bourcier became Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
She was the director of the CNRS Institute ‘Computers, Law, Linguistics” at the Conseil d’Etat, Palais Royal, Paris (1985-1997).
She is lead of Department “Law, Public sector & Technology in the Research Center in administrative and political Science, Université of Paris 2 (2002- ).
She is scientific Lead of Creative Commons French Chapter.
She edited or co-edited 14 books and wrote sixty papers in various fields, namely in Law, Language, IT & governance
She was chair or Scientific Member of many international conferences (ICAIL, JURIX, AFSCET, Knowright,…), and Summer Schools (Complex systems CNRS…).
She is a member of the Conseil d’Administration of ADIJ and AFSCET.
Areas of works: Legal Theory, Transformations of legal governance in Europe & IT, Legal language and argumentation, Legal Complex systems. |
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Thomas BRUCE |
Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School, USA | | III PLENARY SESSION
Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Sharing of Legal Knowledge | Thomas R. Bruce is Director and co-founder of the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School, the first public legal information web site in the world. A pioneer in browser development and of the Web in general, Mr. Bruce is also the creator of numerous online legal resources ranging from a fifteenth-century English law text in Latin and English to online course materials in law at Cornell and Harvard, as well as most of the collections at the LII. He has been a Fellow of the Center for Online Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, and a Senior International Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. He currently serves on the ABA Committee on the Future of e-Rulemaking, and as a director of the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). He has also installed commercial refrigeration equipment, stage-managed opera, and built furniture for theatrical director Robert Wilson. |
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Pompeu CASANOVAS |
Institute of Law and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Dr. Pompeu Casanovas is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Autonomous University of Catalonia (UAB), Law School; Director of Advanced Research (ACQU), Consultant of Artificial Intelligence and Law at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC); and Director of the UAB Institute of Law and Technology. He has conducted research in several institutes and universities (UCSD, OIISL, Stanford, Bologna...). He has been principal investigator of over 40 national and international projects, and author of above 10 books and 100 scientific articles in the areas of legal philosophy, legal sociology, judicial studies, and AI and Law (the Semantic Web). He is the General Editor of the Research Series /La Razón/ Áurea/(Editorial Comares, Spain). |
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Gherardo CASINI |
UN/DESA Office in Rome and Executive Coordinator, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, Italy | I PLENARY SESSION
The Right to Access Legal Information | Mr. Gherardo Casini graduated in Economics from the University of Rome. Between 1990 and 1992, he worked as economist in the private sector, as well as a researcher in the Italian university system. From 1992 to 1994 he joined the NGO sector to work in Ecuador as Visiting Professor.
Since 1994 he has been serving in the United Nations Secretariat in different positions on governance-related issues. From February 2001 Mr. Casini is the Head of the Office of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in Rome. In this capacity he has worked on e-government and e-governance initiatives with several partners around the world. Currently, Mr. Casini is also the Executive Coordinator of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament. He speaks Italian, English, Spanish and some French. |
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Karl CHARBONNEAU
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LexUM - University of Montreal, Canada
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The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Karl Charbonneau is a Computer Analyst for LexUM. His current work involves the management of legislative documents. |
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Philip CHUNG
| AustLII Australasian Legal Information Institute
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
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The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Philip Chung is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney and Executive Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). He has degrees in law and computer science. Philip manages all of the systems operated by AustLII, including WorldLII, AsianLII and CommonLII, and is the author of much of the software they use.
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Pasquale COSTANZO |
University of Genoa, Italy | 1 PARALLEL SESSION
A Legal Framework for the Provision of Legal Information | Pasquale Costanzo è professore ordinario di diritto costituzionale nell’Università di Genova, dove insegna anche diritto costituzionale comparato, diritto pubblico dell’informazione e delle reti e diritto dell’internet. Avvocato cassazionista, ha ricoperto anche la carica di presidente del consiglio scientifico dell’ITTIG, Istituto di teoria e tecniche dell’informazione giuridica, di Firenze ed è componente del Consiglio direttivo dell’Associazione nazionale docenti d'informatica giuridica (ANDIG). Ha al suo attivo numerose pubblicazioni nello specifico settore del diritto delle nuove tecnologie, tra cui Aspetti evolutivi del regime giuridico di Internet (Riv. informatica, 1996); Le nuove forme di comunicazione in rete: Internet (Trattato Santaniello 1997); La circolazione dell’informazione giuridica digitalizzata (fenomenologia e profili problematici) (Riv. informatica, 1999); Internet (diritto pubblico) (Dig. Disc. pubbl. 2000); L’internet et le droit. Droit européen et comparé de l’internet (réponses à un questionnaire) (Annali Genova, 2002); Profili costituzionali di internet (Diritto di internet e dell’e-business, Milano, 2003); La democrazia elettronica (Riv. informatica, 2003); The impact of new technologies, fundamental liberties and the Italian legal system: an Overview (E-Government and E-Democracy, London, 2006). È componente dei consigli scientifici della "Rivista dell’informazione e dell’informatica" e "Diritto dell’internet". Ha realizzato, tra gli altri, i portali giuridici Consulta OnLine e Tecniche normative. |
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Stéphane COTTIN |
General Secretariat of the Government, France | | II PLENARY SESSION
Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | Stéphane COTTIN became, in summer 2008, special envoy (chargé de mission) for the French General Secretary of the Government in charge of the development of the information systems and the exploitation of the documentation. These missions concern better dissemination of the legal information, and better access to public legal databases and websites, such as the official one Legifrance.gouv.fr .
Former head librarian, then head registrar at the French Constitutional Council, he was especially in charge of the organization of the presidential election. He is also specialized in databases conception, legalXML and legal information retrieval. He got a Master Dipl. in Information Sciences at Sciences Po Paris (1993), and has been teaching several courses (legal information research) in several Parisian universities, in Science Po, and for the French association of information specialists (ADBS).
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Iain CURRIE |
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa | | I PLENARY SESSION
The Right to Access Legal Information | Iain Currie is a Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he teaches intellectual property law and media law. He is an author and co-author of books on the South African Bill of Rights, on constitutional law, administrative law and on freedom of information. He is currently a member of the South African Law Reform Commission’s research project tasked with drafting a data protection law for South Africa. |
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Bertel DE GROOTE |
University College Ghent, Belgium | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Bertel De Groote has a Phd in law and is a full-time law professor at the Faculty of Business Administration and Public Administration of the University College Ghent. Bertel De Groote is head of the unit “Tax law & accountancy”. He studied at Ghent University Law School and under an Erasmus-exchange programme at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He teaches civil law, tax law and IT-law. He is involved in the writing of course material as co-author of a book on Belgian civil law.
His research interest covers the fields of private international law, law & information technology, consumer law (especially legal aspects of overindebtedness) and estate planning. He wrote several scientific contributions and reported on several conferences in the aforementioned research fields. |
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Andrea DI PORTO |
Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian National Research Council
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy | | Introduction | |
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Sebastiano FARO |
ITTIG/CNR, Italy | 1 PARALLEL SESSION
A Legal Framework for the Provision of Legal Information | Sebastiano Faro is Senior researcher of the Italian National Research Council. He has a degree in Law (1992) and holds a Ph.d. in Administrative Law (1999). Since 2001 he has been working at the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG) in Florence. His main research area involves: techniques and methods for legal documentation and for the creation of administrative and legal information systems; techniques and methods for the electronic analysis, production and evaluation of legal acts; formal models for the organization of legal knowledge and ICT and law.
From 1996 to 2005 he was professor under contract of European Public Law and Legal Informatics at the "Master in European Studies", organised by the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Florence. From 1998 to 2000 he was professor under contract of European Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lecce.
From 2001 to 2004 he collaborated for the creation of NiR (“Norme in Rete” –Legislation on the Net) portal, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Justice; he co-ordinated specific workpackages for ITTIG (scientific Partner of the Project).
He is working in Caselex (Case Law Exchange), a project funded by the EC Commission under the eTEN programme, and is in charge of the legal documentation section of “DoGi database - Legal Literature, Abstract of articles published in Italian law periodicals" (http://www.ittig.cnr.it/dogi).
Recently he has published academic articles on the processing of personal data, consumer protection, eDemocracy, and digitalisation of document processing in the Italian administrative justice system. |
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Fernando GALINDO AYUDA |
University of Zaragoza, Spain | | 2 PARALLEL SESSION
The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Graduate in Law, Univ. of Zaragoza, 1975. Doctor in Law, Univ. of Zaragoza, 1981. Doctoral thesis on "The political consequences of the introduction of liberalism in Spain (1808-1814)".
Postdoctoral studies in Frankfurt an Main (1980-81). Most important research stays in the Universities of Bremen (1984), Louisiana State Law Institute (1986) and Münster (1987).
From 1985 Professor Titular of Philosophy of Law, University of Zaragoza, Spain. Teaching on "Philosophy of Law", "Law and Computers" and "Ethics and legislation for engineers". From 1986 until 1997 responsible of postgraduate courses of "Law and Computers" for Spanish and Ibero-American jurists.
From 1984 responsible of researches and advice for Public Administrations and Industry on "Law and Computers". Most important topics: "Legal databases and Artificial Intelligence" (1984-1994), "Computers, Communications and Public Administrations" (1994-96), "Regulation of digital signature and implantation of certification services providers" (from 1997).
Joint researches in 1992-93 with the University of Linz (Austria) and in 1995-96 with the Queen?s University of Belfast (North Ireland).
From 1984 responsible of researches and advice for Public Administrations, Judicial Power and Industry on "Law and Computers".
President of the "APTICE - Association for the Promotion of the Information Technologies and the Electronic Commerce". APTICE is a non profit association that has as principal object the creation of a Stamp of Guarantee of the Electronic Commerce and Electronic Government (AGACE).
From 1999 coordinator of the Network "LEFIS - Legal framework for the information society", supported by the European Union, Socrates Programme. Coordinator of the Law&ICT Shared Virtual Vampus.
Coordinator of the research group "Data protection and electronic signature". Author of more than 135 publications. Editor and coeditor of the books: Advances in Electronic Government (2000), E-Government: Legal, Technical and Pedagogical Aspects (2003), Electronic Government (Special Issue of the International Review of Law Computers & Technology, 2004) and Gobierno, derecho y tecnología: las actividades de los poderes públicos (2006).
Director of the LEFIS Series.
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Alessandro GALLO |
Springer Southern Europe, Italy | | 2 PARALLEL SESSION
The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Alessandro Gallo is an Italian national, graduated from the Università Federico II in Naples, holds an M.A. from the University of Bath, Institut de Science Politiques and Université Sorbonne in Paris. He's in charge of sales, marketing and training activities for the online platform SpringerLink. He has eight years of experience in electronic publishing having worked and lived in different countries including France and the UK. Near native written and spoken English and French, good business Spanish. |
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Thomas F. GORDON |
Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany | | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Thomas F. Gordon is a computer scientist and lawyer conducting applied computer science research in the areas of computational dialectics, argumentation support systems, legal knowledge systems, artificial intelligence and law, and mediation systems, with the goal of providing support tools for all argumentation use cases, especially in the context of governance and the regulatory life cycle: agenda setting, analysis, policy development and legislation, implementation (including administrative rulemaking and electronic service delivery), and monitoring. |
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Graham GREENLEAF
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Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
University of New South Wales, Australia
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A Legal Framework for the Provision of Legal Information 2 PARALLEL SESSION
The Global Scope of Free Access to Law III PLENARY SESSION
Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Sharing of Legal Knowledge | Graham Greenleaf is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and Co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), one of the longest-established and largest of the LIIs. He has qualifications in law and is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. His particular interest at present is the global development of free access to law. He is also Co-Director of the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at UNSW where he works on the public domain and on privacy law. |
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Carlos G. GREGORIO |
Instituto de Información para la Justicia, Argentina | | 2 PARALLEL SESSION
The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Carlos G. Gregorio is a researcher of Instituto de Investigación para la Justicia and consultant of USAID's Regional Program for strengthening labor justice in Central America and Dominican Republic.
He has been consultant of Inter-American Children's Institute (Organization of American States) and UNICEF in issues of juvenile justice; coordinator of the project Internet, Privacy and the Judiciary in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) sponsored by IDRC-Canada; consultant of the World Bank on administration of justice programs in Brazil, Mexico, Slovakia and Moldova; consultant of the National Center for State Courts (USA) in judicial reform projects in Latin America and Morocco and Professor of Jurimetrics at the School of Law of the University Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has Ph. D. by the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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Maximilian HERBERGER |
Institute for legal data-processing at the Saarland University, Germany | I PLENARY SESSION
The Right to Access Legal Information | Maximilian Herberger (born 25th of November, 1946) graduated in Law at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Germany (1979). He became a Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for European History of Law in Frankfurt, completed his PhD in Law in 1982 with a thesis on “Normstruktur und Normklarheit” and practised actively as a lawyer. In 1983 he acquired the right to teach as a Professor with the study “Dogmatik. Zur Geschichte von Begriff und Methode in Medizin und Jurisprudenz”. After having lectured in Frankfurt, Montpellier, Berkeley, Münster, Berlin and Osnabrück he was appointed Professor in Civil Law, Theory of Law and Computing in the Law at the University of Saarland in 1988. He has been the Director of the Institute of Informatics and Law (IFRI) since its establishment in 1991.
A core activity of the Institute is the Law Web Saarbrücken, an internet-based portal and forum for Law. Associations have been established with a number of institutions such as the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), the Court of Justice of the European Communities, the International Criminal Court, and the German legal information system juris. Since its foundation, he has been the President of the “EDV-Gerichtstag”, the German Association for Computing in the Judiciary. Professor Herberger is the current editor of JurPC, an Internet Journal on Computers and Law, and is active in lecturing, research and consultancy in the field of Computing and Law, specialising particularly in security aspects. Furthermore, Prof. Herberger is a member of the “Legal Tools External Expert Advisory Group (LTEAG)” of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (http://www.icc-cpi.int/), “Professeur associé” at University of Luxemburg and a member of the Advisory Board of “Europäische EDV-Akademie des Rechts gGmbH” in Merzig.
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Aki HIETANEN |
Ministry of Justice, Finland | II PLENARY SESSION
Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | Mr. Aki Hietanen is Director of Information Services in the Ministry of Justice of Finland. He has been engaged in work on legal information for twenty years, as project manager of Finlex and as an expert in the development of legal information services in Europe. He has been the chairman of the EU Council Working group on Legal Data Processing and of working groups dealing with authenticity of legislative acts, development of the N-Lex service and on the use of videoconferencing in cross-border court proceedings. Currently Mr Hietanen is Chairman of the European Forum of Legal Gazettes.
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Harald HOFFMANN
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Metadat, Austria
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Nina KOCH
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Ministry of Justice, Denmark
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Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | 2005: Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Agency - Director General
- The former Secretariat of Legal Information, se below
- Foundations
- Legal Aid/Access to Justice
- Secretariat of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
1994 - 2005: Ministry of Justice, Secretariatet of Legal Information, Director General
- The secretariatet of Legal Information is the publisher of Lovtidende and Ministerialtidende, the Danish Official Journals, and of Retsinformation, the governmental legal information databases.
- Council of the European Union, Working Party of Legal Data Processing, member.
- Committee of Experts on IT an Law, Council of Europe, expert.
1990 - 1994: Ministry of Justice/Ministry of the Interior, Danish Immigration Board
- Head of Departement (1990 - 1992), Deputy Director (1993 - 1994)
- Housing and support of asylum seekers.
1980 - 1990: Ministry of Justice
- Road Safety (1985 - 1988),
- Court Administration (1988 - 1990).
- Part-time station to the District Attorney for Sjaelland (1986 - 1988) and the Local Court of Roskilde (1988 - 1989)
1983 - 1985: Local Court of Nykoebing Sj.
1980 - 1983: Ministry of Justice
- Family Law (1980 - 1982), Public Law (1982 - 1983).
- Part-time station to the Chief Constable of Hvidovre (1981 - 1983)
1982 - 1989: University of Copenhagen
- Instructor of law (1982 - 1985), assistant professor of law (1985 - 1989)
- teaching constitutional law and public law (part-time).
1975 - 1980: University of Copenhagen
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Friedrich LACHMAYER
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University of Innsbruck, Austria | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
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Philip LEITH
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Queen's University of Belfast, UK | | 1 PARALLEL SESSION
A Legal Framework for the Provision of Legal Information | Leith has been a member of the law school at Queen’s since 1985. His doctorate was in the application of the computer to law (a critical study of the notion of legal expert system). He has published (1st and 2nd editions) The Computerized Lawyer, has carried out various research projects into working practices (including the use of legal information) in the UK profession (The Barrister’s World and the Nature of Law, Open University Press). He has recently completed a text on software and patents in Europe (published by Cambridge UP in 2007).
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Pierre-Paul LEMYRE
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LexUM - University of Montreal, Canada
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Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Sharing of Legal Knowledge | Pierre-Paul is in charge of the business development of LexUM, particularly at the international level were he contributed to build relationships with numerous founding agencies and local partners. He is highly interested in the challenges that lasting development poses, as well as in the existing links between access to legal information and a fair and efficient justice system. He is also recognized as an expert on legal issues related to free and open source software. |
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Caterina LUPO
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CNIPA - National Centre for ICT in the Public Administrations, Italy
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Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | Caterina Lupo graduated cum laude in Mathematics at the university of Naples in 1980. Since then she has been working in the field of Information technology in research, industry and Public Administration. She started to focus on legal information retrieval systems working at the internals of Italgiure in the 80s at the Court of Cassation with the Ministry of Justice. Then she joined CNIPA (National Center for Information technology in Public Administration, former AIPA) where promoted the Normeinrete initiative and supported the adoption of XML to represent legal documents leading to the publication of two national technical standard on the Official Gazette. Currently she is involved in several activities concerning legal information systems including a project for a new release of Normeinrete, the implementation of the x-Leges system, to support the legislative production process, the European project ESTRELLA, the CEN/Metalex working group and the planning of educational initiatives in this field. |
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Ivan MOKANOV |
LexUM - University of Montreal, Canada
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Strategic Solutions and Sustainability Models for the Sharing of Legal Knowledge | Ivan Mokanov is Deputy Director of LexUM and Chief Editor of CanLII. He oversees CanLII's publishing and development activities and works with the Board of Directors to set CanLII's strategic directions. At LexUM, Ivan supervises various consulting and research projects in Canada and abroad. As a member of LexUM's Executive Committee, he participates in LexUM's administration and business development. Ivan is a graduate from Sofia University (B.C.L.), the University of Montreal (LL.M.) and he is currently enrolled at HEC Montreal (M.B.A).
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Michel MORET
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Centre for Official Publications, Swiss Federal Chancellery, Switzerland
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Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | Mr. Moret holds the Swiss Federal Diploma of ICT-Analyst and an “Executive MBA of Integrated Management” from the Management School for Economics in Fribourg. His senior positions include Deputy Director at an ICT-company in the canton of Fribourg, Head of the ICT-Department at the Swiss National Library and, most recently, Chief of ICT-Integration at the General Secretariat of the Federal Department of Home Affairs.
Mr. Moret leads the centre for Official Publications in conceptual, technical, personnel, financial and organizational terms since June 1st 2008. With his team, and in collaboration with the offices concerned and with others services of the Federal Chancellery, he guarantees the high-quality, timely and proper publication of official publications. The Centre for Official Publications offers, inter alia, the Online Classified Compilation of Federal Legislation via the Internet.
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Marc-André MORISSETTE |
LexUM - University of Montreal, Canada
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The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Marc-André Morissette supervises the software development efforts of LexUM. He contributes to the design and manages the implementation of most of LexUM's software. Marc-André's current research interests concern point-in-time legislation systems, workflow-software integration and information research algorithms for legal Web sites. |
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Andrew MOWBRAY
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Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
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The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Andrew Mowbray is a Professor of Law and Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney and Co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). He has degress in law and computer science. Andrew is the author of the open source Sino search engine used by AustLII and many other LIIs, and core elements of AustLII's hypertext mark-up software.
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Roberta NANNUCCI
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ITTIG/CNR, Italy
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The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Roberta Nannucci has a master in political science and is expert in legal documentation relating to the development of advanced systems (online data bases and bibliographies) and of semantic tools aiding data base access (thesauri and semantic nets). From 1975 to 2000 she coordinated the editorial staff of the International Bibliography on Information Technology and Law, published for ten years by Kluwer (NL) and from 1998 on CD-Rom. More recently she focused her attention on studies dealing with the development of the Information Society in Europe, especially on the relationships between ICT and Public Institutions (e-Government, e-Democracy and e-Learning). She collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Justice within the NIR Project for the creation of "ABC del Diritto" (ABC for the Law), an online tool facilitating citizens in accessing legal information (http://www.normeinrete.it/abc/html/indice.htm). From 2003 to nowadays she represents ITTIG in the LEFIS (Legal Framework for the Information Society) European Project co-ordinated by a Spanish law professor, prof. Fernando Galindo. Presently she is the co-ordinator of the Caselex project cofinanced by the European Commission first under e-Content ((2005-2006) and after under e-TEN (2008-2009). She is the author of many scientific contributions presented at international conferences, the editor of "Lineamenti di Informatica Giuridica: Teoria, Metodi, Applicazioni" (Napoli, ESI, 2002, 603 p), a thorough and rich handbook on legal informatics for University students editor of the scientific international journal "Informatica e diritto since its foundation (1975) and" member of its Scientific Board from 2004. |
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Abdul PALIWALA |
University of Warwick, UK | | 2 PARALLEL SESSION
The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Professor Abdul Paliwala, Professor of Law, University of Warwick; Director, Law Courseware Consortium and Electronic Law Journals, Senior IT Consultant, UK Centre for Legal Information and until recently Director International Development and Human Rights. |
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Monica PALMIRANI |
CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy | | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Monica Palmirani, Associate professor of Computer Science and Law at Bologna University, School of Law, Italy. Graduated in Mathematic, Ph.D. in Legal Informatics and IT Law, teacher of several courses of Legal Informatics, eGovernment, Legal drafting techniques. President of the three-year undergraduate programme Legal Informatics and IT Law at the Bologna University School of Law. She is member of CIRSFID, one of the main centres of excellence in Italy and one of the leading centres at international level for the area of computer science and law. She is member of Ph.D. Programme in Legal Informatics and IT Law, of the Master in the Law of the New technologies and leader of the LEXML.it inside of homonymous European network. The principal field of research is in Legislative and Legal Informatics, in particular she is expert of XML techniques for modelling legal documents both in structure and knowledge. She is proficient of Legal Drafting techniques supported by the ICT and she manages several projects with the Public Administration to improve legal quality, to design legal information system, to apply the point-in-time ICT techniques. She is a member of the AKOMA NTOSO project managed by the UNDESA and oriented to promote XML standard for e-Parliament in Africa, as well as she is a part of the technical committee of MetaLex/CEN (European XML legal standard) and of NormeInRete for the standardisation of legal document in Italy. |
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Daniel POULIN |
LexUM - University of Montreal, Canada | Introduction
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The Right to Access Legal Information | Daniel Poulin is professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal. He is director of LexUM - a University of Montréal services and research laboratory specializing in legal informatics - and chair holder of the LexUM Research Chair at the Faculty of Law. Daniel is also research and development director of the Canadian Legal Information Institute.
Daniel teaches information technologies in the Cyberspace Law Program at the Faculty of Law. His research interests relate to the circulation of legal information, legal information systems design and more generally to the computerization of legal processes. Dozens of legal information systems have been designed and implemented by the professor Poulin’s LexUM team, such as CanLII, Juris International and Droit francophone. Daniel Poulin has published many papers and he is regularly invited to speak at conferences in Canada and abroad. He regularly carries out consulting mandates for Canadian legal institutions and international development agencies on matters related to legal informatics and its intersection with legal reform and judicial institutions development. Daniel POULIN has been a member of the Canadian Judicial Council’s Judges Technology Advisory Committee since 1994. |
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Kevin K.H. PUN
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Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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A Legal Framework for the Provision of Legal Information | PhD (Computer Science), LLM (Intellectual Property), Barrister-at-law, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Department of Law, The University of Hong Kong.
Kevin Pun is currently teaching in the Computer Science Department and the Law Department of The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is a co-director of the Law & Technology Centre at HKU jointly established by the Computer Science Department and the Faculty of Law, and is in charge of two projects under the Centre - the Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (www.hklii.hk), a website offering free access to primary legal materials in Hong Kong, and the Community Legal Information Centre (www.hkclic.org), a website providing free legal information specifically catered for the general public with no legal background.
Kevin has extensive teaching and research experience in the interdisciplinary field of intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT). He is a frequent speaker and commentator on legal issues relating to electronic commerce and information technology, and has been invited to address judges, legal practitioners, business executives, journalists, civil servants, police officers, educators, publishers and other professionals.
As a HKU representative on an intervarsity task force on copyright, he had played a leading role in drafting submissions on behalf of the education sector concerning copyright reform in Hong Kong. As a practising barrister, he has acted as counsel in many IP and IT cases including the recent case of Chan Nai Ming v HKSAR before the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
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Mario RAGONA |
ITTIG/CNR, Italy | | 2 PARALLEL SESSION
The Global Scope of Free Access to Law | Mario Ragona is research director at the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG), Italian National Research Council in Florence, where he is responsible for the research project “Legal documentation systems”. He teaches Legal Data Processing at the Perugia University Faculty of Law. Besides his editorial and educational activity, he collaborated towards the feasibility study of various public institutions’ information systems and participated at the creation of different electronic legal archives, among which the legal literature database DoGi. |
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Davide SARTI |
University of Florence, Italy | 1 PARALLEL SESSION
A Legal Framework for the Provision of Legal Information | Born in Ferrara on the 30th July, 1960.
First degree: University of Ferrara (1983, cum laude).
PhD at the University of Ferrara in Intellectual Property law (1992).
Researcher in the Law Faculty of the University of Ferrara (1992-1998).
Professor of Commercial law in the Economics Faculty of the University of Venice (1998-2002).
Full professor of Commercial law and Intellectual property law in the Economics Faculty of the University of Venice (2002-2005).
Actually (since 2005) full professor of Commercial law and Competition Law in the Economics Faculty of the University of Florence.
Main fields of research:
Copyright protection in industrial design; Copyright and private copy; Intellectual property and antitrust law; Collective administration of intellectual property rights; Intellectual property rights and broadcasting of sport events. |
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Günther SCHEFBECK |
Parliamentary Documentation Department, Austria | II PLENARY SESSION
Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | Günther Schefbeck, born 1962, head of the department "Parliamentary Documentation, Archives, and Statistics" of the Austrian Parliamentary Administration, has been dealing with the societal impact of the new information and communication technologies for a dozen of years, in papers and conference contributions; his particular interest is in eParticipation and innovative ways of involving civil society in public decision-making processes.
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Italo SCOTTI |
Research Service of Chamber of Deputies, Italy | I PLENARY SESSION
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Enrico SETA |
Chamber of Deputies, Italy | I PLENARY SESSION
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Roland TRAUNMÜLLER |
University of Linz, Austria | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Roland Traunmüller is Professor Emeritus of the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria.
After a study of Chemistry and Physics he turned 1970 to Informatics and has worked in the field of Information Systems and applications of ICT in Government. He is author of 140 publications and editor of numerous books. Further, Prof. Traunmüller has accepted several invitations for visiting professorships (Amsterdam, Bangkok, Bonn, Budapest, Chengdu, Graz, Heidelberg, Koblenz, Paris, Prague, Speyer, and Zaragoza). His work concerning e-Government is rich: Already 1990 he founded a working group on the subject "Information Systems in Public Administration" (within IFIP, the International Federation of Computer Societies). Further Prof. Traunmüller founded 2001 the EGOV conference series - the biggest annual European e-Government Conferences with R&D focus. Prof. Traunmüller heads the Austrian Forum e-Government and has worked in several functions for national and international bodies (European Commission, OECD and UN). |
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Hans VAN BOSSUYT
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Management Board Informatisation of the Judicial Organisation, Belgium
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ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Hans Van Bossuyt (Ghent, Belgium, 23.07.1954) has a master in law and a master in criminology of the University College Ghent (Belgium). He is judge at the Court of Appeal in Ghent since 1996 and President of the Management Board Informatisation of the Judicial Organisation in Belgium since 2006.
He has strong skills in court management and administration. He has also strong experiences in court informatisation processes, information systems used to enhance the quality and efficiency of Justice, data bases use for jurisprudence, Justice organisation and functioning, modernisation processes and international cooperation between Courts.
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Tom VAN ENGERS
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Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Prof. dr. Tom M. van Engers is professor in Legal Knowledge Management at the University of Amsterdam and managing director of the Leibniz Center for Law. Van Engers is also CEO of the Regulatory Knowledge Foundation.
Van Engers studied Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at the Utrecht University where he graduated in Cognition and Representation and in Cognitive Ergonomics. He has received his PhD at the faculty Mathematics and Information Sciences at the Free University in Amsterdam. His working experience in the field of legal information systems goes back to 1983.
Van Engers works at the Ministry of Finance since 1983. From 1983 he worked at the Automation Directorate (Directie Automatisering der Rijksbelastingen (DAR)) at the Development Department (Bureau Ontwikkeling Automatiseringsprojecten). There Van Engers is involved in innovation and method reseach amongst others. He works as Manager Research at the Project Organisation Artificial Intelligence and Audit Automation from 1990 until 2000. In that function Van Engers is responsible for the research in new technologies. In that period he is the responsible project manager for many innovative projects (e.g. risk detection, natural language processing, data mining and digital intelligent agents on the Internet) and is he active as business consultant especially within organisational change programmes (e.g. knowledge related organisational change at the Internal Audit Department IAB. Van Engers represents the Ministry of Financial in the interdepartmental working group Knowledge-based Systems from1999 until 1996. From 1996 until 1999 Van Engers is co-chair of the Knowledge Management working group. From 2000 until now he works for the Design department (Centre for Process and Product Design) as programme manager first managing the research programme POWER (Programme for and Ontology-based Working Environment for Rules and regulations) later as general consultant. He has coordinated and still coordinates several international research projects such as the 5th Framework sponsored research project E-POWER, Trias Telematica, Estrella and SEAL.
Van Engers is programme committee member of international conferences such as the International Symposium on the Management of Industrial and Corporate Knowledge (ISMICK), ICAIL (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law) and DEXA/E-Government. Van Engers is former chair of the Vanwoodman International Society for Knowledge Productivity and former chair of the EU-Forum working group on Change Management and Cross-Institutional Issues. He is observer at Jurix, the society for legal information sciences. Van Engers is member of the E-Government working group of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Furthermore Van Engers is board member of Juriconnect and chair of the CEN/ISSS Metalex workshop on standards for legal sources.
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Fernando VENTURINI
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Chamber of Deputies Library, Italy
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Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | Fernando Venturini, nato il 7 marzo 1957, è Consigliere parlamentare presso la Biblioteca della Camera dei deputati dove è responsabile del coordinamento degli acquisti. Laureato in lettere presso l'Università "La Sapienza" di Roma si è successivamente diplomato presso la Scuola speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari della stessa Università. Nel 1993 ha conseguito il diploma del Corso di studi legislativi presso l'Istituto di studi legislativi (ISLE).
Ha pubblicato studi di storia delle istituzioni militari e di storia della magistratura, in particolare il volume Un «sindacato» di giudici da Giolitti a Mussolini: l'Associazione Generale dei Magistrati Italiani (1909-1926), Bologna, 1987. Si è poi dedicato a ricerche di bibliografia e biblioteconomia con particolare attenzione al settore della documentazione amministrativa. Ha curato Le fonti per lo studio dell’amministrazione pubblica italiana: guida bibliografica, 1848–1992, Bologna, 1994. Più di recente ha coordinato la redazione della BPR: Bibliografia del Parlamento repubblicano, 1948–2000, Roma, 2002 e ha pubblicato, con Piero Cavaleri, il volume: Documenti e dati pubblici sul web: guida all'informazione di fonte pubblica in rete, Bologna, 2004.
Coordina, sul sito dell'Associazione italiana biblioteche, la redazione del repertorio DFP: Documentazione di fonte pubblica in rete.
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Hughes-Jehan VIBERT
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MINES ParisTech, France | 3 PARALLEL SESSION
ICTs and the Quality of Legal Information | Hughes-Jehan Vibert is a doctor in law, information and communication science, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science Research Center of MINES ParisTech. His research is on “the transmission of law and the legal Internet” and, specificly, a peer-to-peer acces to the sources of the law.
He, along with teams and Law faculties from five countries, helped in creating Jurispedia, a wiki available in seven languages and devoted to the world's legal systems and to the legal and political sciences. |
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Vincenzo ZENO-ZENCOVICH |
University of Rome 3, Italy | II PLENARY SESSION
Free Access to Law: Information Systems and Institutions | Vincenzo Zeno- Zencovich is professor of comparative law in the Law faculty of the University of Roma Tre, where he teaches also Computer law and Communications law. He has been visiting professor in the University of Oxford and at University College London. A significant part of his publications is devoted to the legal aspects of information and telecommunications, including a handbook on the latter subject. He is one the editors of the main Italian media and communications law review, “Il diritto dell’informazione e dell’informatica” and on the editorial board of several other reviews. The list of publications is at http://www.giur.uniroma3.it/materiale/docenti/zeno/index.html
He has been advisor to the Italian government in the third and fourth GSM operator tender, and in the 3G and WLL auctions, and has been extensively involved in the activities of the Italian national telecommunications regulatory authority and of the Italian Ministry of communications.
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